Some wines come with a thick wax seal on the top. To open them, says Gillian Ballance, wine director of FARM at the Carneros Inn, push your corkscrew through as though the seal wasn’t even there.
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I am very frequently asked the question, “How do you get through these wax capsules?” It seems like an impossible feat. I’m going to show you a quick and easy way to get through the capsule. Take the worm of your corkscrew and just go right into the center. A few twists and I always recommend stopping at that last little curve and then you just pull up. The pressure of pulling up on the cork will break the wax and then you can just take your knife or your fingers and just kind of go around and you’re ready to go.